Author: Don Simpson
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Austin Cinematic Limits: So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Good Night…
As many of you probably know, I have been juggling an all-consuming day job with various writing gigs, essentially leaving no time for anything else…
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Surveying Austin’s Cinematic Limits with Ex-Austinite Todd Berger
A New Orleans native, writer-director Todd Berger moved to Austin to attend The University of Texas. After graduating from UT’s Radio-Television-Film program, Berger was quickly…
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Transforming the Texas Hill Country into a Mediterranean Oasis with ‘Satellite of Love’
Eric Rohmer’s La Collectionneuse (1967) serves as a purposeful point of reference for writer-director Will James Moore’s Satellite of Love ‐ not only does Moore…
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Flipping Through ‘Pictures of Superheroes’ With Don Swaynos
Like an absurd psychological study of the multiple personalities of modern life in Austin, writer/director Don Swaynos’ Pictures of Superheroes cleverly juxtaposes a slackerish man-child…
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Talking Food Fights and Teleportation with Producer Irene Georghiades
University of Texas at Austin senior Irene Georghiades is the producer of two short films that have been selected to premiere at the 2012 Austin…
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Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival Turns 25 and Matures to Become Polari
I have been attending the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival (aGLIFF) religiously for the last six years (and a bit more sporadically for…
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Fantastic Fest: Jennymarie Jemison and Rafael Antonio Ruiz Get Stylishly Violent
I have been keeping a very close eye on The Quiet Girl’s Guide to Violence ever since its successful Kickstarter campaign this past spring. The…
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A Ton of Austin Productions Screening Soon
For those of you who reside in the Big Apple and want to see one of Austin’s finest films of the last few years, Clay…
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Mondo’s Next Gallery Opening, Fantastic Fest Events, and More…
I was going to yell at most of you (yes, even you!) for not buying an advance ticket to Cinema East’s Tugg screening of I…